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That's a good point, David. Too many "journalists" are almost completely ignorant of really basic stats, not to mention common sense.

That's not even getting into the issue of deliberately spreading false info.

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I remember when a homeless advocate claimed that two homeless people died every second in the US. The media ran with it, but that would be roughly 63 million a year. Journalists should have to take arithmetic at some point.

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